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Show F wt - ' .iMr: ..a .? 1V! ' -- . rf t ., a.'A5 Published Every 8atyrday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: in United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.00 per year, the Including postage six months. for $125 Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $3.50 per year. ... Ite1! iA.'ELi'A. fc.iSAfrJi ?,' rjd- - .i,. V ..: - " Hi. i.STv'kT. ? V -- il . --i Single copies, 5 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. Salt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 INTER VENTION IN MEXICO A GAIN AN ISSUE on our northern and war on our southern borders is an himself. Perhaps if Carranza had a free hand we should not find him condition of affairs. We do not look for a change in a so complex, but the Mexican president, in his time, has been compelled situation that appears to be normal and yet somewhat mysterious. to play many roles and the real Carranza is more or lpss of a mystery. Why should such serene tranquillity prevail enduringly in the north Always, in treating with the government at Washington, he has been while tumult and warfare constantly disturb us in the south ? compelled to balance himself on a tottering throne. When he wrote The explanation is, no doubt, that common speech, common ideals a message to Washington the leaders of factions, so to speak, were and the same high standard of living link Canada and the United looking over his shoulders, scowling and making ominous noises with States in a sort of spiritual union. From Mexico and the Mexicans automatics. we are separated by the barriers of a different language and different The result has been that we have seldom known how to take ideals and by standards of living that give the two peoples outlooks Carranza. At times he appeared to be conciliatory ; at other tiiiies on life that have little in common. narrow and stubborn to the point of insanity. Sometimes we speak of the Mexican problem as if it were but For many years the policy of the administration at Washington the question of a year or a decade, for we remember the time when, has been as changeable as Carranza. Until within the last several under the dictatorship of Diaz, there was a stable government in Mexyears there was no fixed policy regarding the outrages on the border. ico and when the problem did not seem to exist. In reality, however, Finally public sentiment in this country compelled the administration the problem was merely in abeyance. The Mexican problem is alto take a decisive stand and it became a more or less settled policy to send expeditions into Mexico to punish bandits and even revolutionary ways with us, actually or potentially. Left to themselves, the Mexican cannot set up a stable government in the highest civilized sense armies that made our towns and settlements on the border unsafe. of the term, for always at the gates of government the half-cla- d This policy has had some little effect in reducing the turmoil bandits clamor for loot. Within a few miles of the big city of Puebla, along the border, but it has made the bandits more resentful and in which our consular agent, William 0. Jenkins, was kidnapped by savage. They have directed their activities toward Americans within the confines of Mexico, seizing them and holding them for ransom. bandits, the outlaws have kept their camps for"years. For ten years revolution and banditry have worked together to In our own land public opinion has never been united on a Mexkeep the Mexican problem in agitation. The fall of Diaz let loose ican policy and the administration has had that excuse, at least, for it forces of anarchy which he had been able to suppress only by irresolution. It is difficult to say at this time whether sentiment on this side of the line favors intervention as a result of the recent kidtyranny. In Mexico the mixture of races has not tended to preserve nappings and the attempt of the Carranza government to confiscate J1' American property at law. repose. There is no identity of interest between the highbred Spaniard and the peons of mixed breed. Whether education Two distinct propagandas have been at work among us that of would stabilize conditions and bring a greater solidarity we do not the interested owners who have property in Mexico and that of the know, for that is a remedy which has not been tried, but certainly Reds who are intensely eager that Mexico should continue to insult revolution and banditry are not common where education is universal. and rob Americans and thereby produce bad feeling and conflict. However we speculate upon conditions in Mexico we can sec The investors have the justification that they were invited into that the problem does not depend altogether upon the government Mexico under a stable government to develop the country and they do that happens to be in power. Even though the government should not relish the theory of the. present Mexican government that they maintain a semblance of stability for a few years the volcano is underare there at their own risk and are entitled only to what the party in neath. The problem is greater for any Mexican government than it power is willing to accord them. is for the United States. Governments that have taken control The Red propagandists have no justification at all and want none. nil the last nine years have hoped, by introducing land reforms and Their sole purpose is to stir up trouble everywhere in the hope that other economic masures, to pacify the people, but revolutionists of they can bring about the downfall of governments and universal d chaos. Consequently radical journals reek with piteous pleas for the many kinds, from the brutal Villa to the scholarly and Mexican pillagers. Felipe Angeles, have risen against each government that has atIt is a curious fact that revolution in Mexico took on the general tempted to restore law and order and prosperity. At present we are dealing with Carranza, who is a problem in character of Bolshevism even before the world had heard much PEACE -- high-minde- I |